Example sentences of "be any use " in BNC.
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| 1 | If any professional person has shown an interest in your work do n't let it go , but try to cultivate their interest , however tenuous it may seem — you will soon know if it 's going to be any use for the future . |
| 2 | ‘ You would n't be any use at the job , if you had nothing to lose . |
| 3 | Not stay and wait to be thrown out after they 'd ceased to be any use to the old baggage . |
| 4 | Would that be any use ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Besides , it would n't be any use , would it ? |
| 6 | A sharp kitchen knife can not be made absolutely safe if it is to be any use as a kitchen knife . |
| 7 | They could never have done anything wide-scale without us knowing — and a Resistance movement has to be wide-scale to be any use . |
| 8 | It ca n't be done , and if it could it would n't be any use ; If you play innocent and unnoticing too well , you wont attract suspicion , but you wo n't notice anything other . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll never be any use to anyone else , ’ she wept . |
| 10 | ‘ Well … if you think I can be any use … ’ |
| 11 | I got no , I 've got no innate ability and if you try to teach me , would it be any use ? just a stupid example . |
| 12 | Check train times before paying up too — last connection from Leeds back down to Oxford leaves too soon after the end of a game to be any use ; it may be the same from Oxford back to Leeds too . |
| 13 | those wo n't be any use will they Tim ? |
| 14 | we could manage to do that one day , if it 's fine this afternoon we might do something like that this afternoon , but if it rains it wo n't be any use , I also want to do the garden this afternoon |
| 15 | she wo n't be any use to anyway ! |
| 16 | I do n't think they 'll be any use then . |